Limits and Open Questions
The 10 Reopening Triggers and Unresolved Scientific Obligations
Foundations Audit treats open questions, negative results, and underdetermination as permanent scientific milestones rather than temporary embarrassments. This page details the 10 registered constitutional reopening triggers and the 10 unresolved obligations from Stage 9.
Claim Boundary & Exclusions Audit
What Is Claimed (Within Scope)
- •The 10 Registered Reopening Triggers establish explicit evidentiary conditions under which closed programs must be reopened.
- •Unresolved obligations include: S1 (intrinsic record support), S2 (intrinsic operational boundary derivation), nonfinite extensions, and hardware physical realization.
- •The program is committed to falsifiability: negative results prevent speculative overreach.
What Is NOT Claimed (Prohibited Inferences)
- •Provisional closure does not mean a problem is permanently unsolvable; it defines the exact trigger required for resumption.
Technical Exposition & Formulation
Per FA-AUTH-01 (Lines 421–442), reopening is mandatory upon: (1) independent physical bridge for actuality provenance, (2) noncircular definite-event selector, (3) witness completeness theorem/counterexample, (4) new carrier changing quotient, (5) composite certification theorem/failure, (6) new separating witness, (7) approximation failure/bound violation, (8) empirical discrimination of rivals, (9) theorem contradiction, or (10) artifact checksum mismatch.
Assumptions & Input Data
- Reopening triggers must be preregistered and evidence-based.
Declared Complete Carrier (K3)
The complete inventory of triggers, ledgers, and stage manifests.
Source Provenance & Verification Hashes
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